Gujarat govt partners with ConnectEd Technologies to teach state school kids

Under this initiative, over 7,500 government school students under the District Administration of Kutch will be provided with free online access to a web and mobile app platform.

The government of Gujarat is looking forward to catering quality education to students studying in state schools. In order to make this a success, an Edtech social enterprise, ConnectEd Technologies, jointly announced an initiative with Everest Kanto Cylinders (EKC), to provide free online access to curriculum-linked educational content across Gujarat government schools. The initiative has been ideated and executed by ConnectEd Technologies. The program aims at providing quality vernacular educational content to government school students, in a bid to improve learning outcomes, especially during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Under this initiative, over 7,500 government school students under the District Administration of Kutch will be provided with free online access to a web and mobile app platform. The platform contains quality educational content in local languages that are in sync with the Gujarat State Board curriculum and can be viewed online or downloaded onto a device for viewing later.

Initially, the initiative will work to benefit students of Class 9 and 10 across schools located in Gandhidham block of Kutch. Eventually, after analysing the progress of the initiative it will scale to students from other grades and regions of Gujarat.

During the course of this initiative, ConnectEd Technologies will coordinate with government schools to make parents and students aware of the platform, and educate them on using any device at their disposal to access quality educational content.

Furthermore, the EdTech social enterprise will provide school teachers with valuable statistics pertaining to content consumption by each student, thereby enabling them to push parents and students to meet learning targets that have been set by the school. Currently, ConnectEd Technologies has deployed such programs across 8 states in India, benefiting 1,50,000+ students, the official press release said.

While announcing the collaboration of the two entities in order to launch the initiative, Dr B N Prajapati, District Education Officer (D E O) - Kutch, Gujarat, said, “The recent surge in Covid-19 cases led to the closure of schools across Gujarat. In such circumstances, government schools and their students are in need of a parallel digital framework through which quality education could be served to govt. school students. It gives me immense pleasure to announce this initiative for all our govt. school students. We are thankful to Everest Kanto Cylinders (EKC), and hope more organisations will come forward to support this initiative and ensure it benefits every student in Gujarat.”

Expressing hopes towards the initiative, Lavin Mirchandani and Lehar Tawde, Co-founder, ConnectEd Technologies, commented, "Entry of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, coupled with a rapid surge in cases, led to re-closure of government schools across India. This situation emphasizes the need for a digital approach that makes quality education accessible to government school students in regional languages. We have been working in this direction since 2020, and are pleased with our association with Everest Kanto Cylinders (EKC), which marks our foray into Gujarat. We hope to scale our presence with support from authorities, EKC India and other organisations”.

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